Assume the given figure to be a delicious doughnut. Yes, now you can concentrate more on the puzzle. So you have this delicious doughnut in your refrigerator when your friends come knocking at the door. There are eight of them.

Now you have to make three cuts in this doughnut so that each one of you nine people can enjoy a piece of it. Neither you nor your friends would mind the size of their piece as long as they are getting it.

Without taking the pizza out of the box or moving any part of it, what's the minimum number of straight cuts required to cut it into 7 pieces of equal area? A straight cut may start and end anywhere, and the pizza comes uncut and round in the box.